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- In this week's Friday section review of the movie "Lawrence of Arabia," playing at the Music Box Theatre, an incorrect phone number was listed. The number of the Music Box Theatre is 773-871-6604. - In some editions of Friday's paper, wrong dates were given for the Art in the Barn fine arts festival in Barrington. The event will run 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sept. 28 and 29. - In a column by Lew Sichelman in Sunday's Real Estate section, it was erroneously stated that only one of the three major credit repositories uses the Fair, Isaac & Co. model.

"What's your favorite movie, Brian Hieggelke?" "'Citizen Kane,'" he said. "Oh, God," said his wife, Jan, standing nearby in the couple's book- and art- and sunlight-filled apartment in the Printers Row neighborhood in the South Loop. Brian had just arrived home after spending some time at what functions as his office, and a finer, more lively office one would have a hard time finding: Hackney's, the bar/restaurant noted for its hamburgers and beer, just up the street. It was there that he talked about Newcity, the self-proclaimed "only locally owned and operated cultural weekly" that he and his wife and younger brother Brent started in 1986 after abandoning careers in the investment banking world.

Services for Mary Frances Hackney, 88, of Morton Grove, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the chapel at 1035 N. Dearborn St. She died Thursday in Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge. Mrs. Hackney was a longtime employee of John Carroll Sons Funeral Home, 1035 N. Dearborn St., until her retirement 10 years ago. She is survived by a daughter, Mary Ellen Voigt; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

"Aspen Extreme" is the first feature directed by onetime ski instructor and TV writer-producer Patrick Hasburgh, who based the film on his own experiences. "It was in Aspen that I developed as a writer," he has said, and I'm not going to touch that line. Bland and hackneyed, it has the feel of a Fox Broadcasting series: the young and the breathless. T.J. Burke (Paul Gross), a Ford assembly-line worker in Detroit and would-be writer, persuades buddy Dexter Rutecki (the winsome Peter Berg)

James E. Masterson, 72, a suburban Chicago restaurateur for almost 50 years, was founder and president of Hackney's on Lake Inc., which has two restaurants in Glenview and others in Wheeling, Lake Zurich and Palos Park. Mass for Mr. Masterson, a Glenview resident, will be said at 11 a.m. Saturday in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, 1775 Grove St., Glenview. He died Thursday in Glenbrook Hospital, Glenview. Hackney's, a highly successful chain of restaurants known for their hamburgers on dark bread and large orders of fried onion rings, began in the 1930s as a roadhouse at 1241 Harms Rd., Glenview.

The newest member of the Hackney's family is doing just fine, thank you. Far away from its siblings in the northern suburbs, Hackney's in Palos Park was founded in 1986, occupying the former space of the Matterhorn, a German restaurant. The German touches remain, in the sayings on the wall and the chalet styling. A mountain mural and fireplace prepare the customer for schnitzel, but the food is where Hackney's American style takes over. The famous Hackneyburger ($4.55)

The only reason to regret Bill Clinton's abandonment of Lani Guinier is that it deprived the country of an open debate on the question of racial quotas. If the president sticks by another friend, Sheldon Hackney, his nominee for chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, we shall have a debate on political correctness. Hackney, president of the University of Pennsylvania, became a symbol of political correctness when, on April 15, a group of minority students, offended by a right-wing columnist at the student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian, stole and destroyed nearly its whole press run of 14,000 copies.